Courses

ILBS-P130

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Steve Bailey

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Required of: None

Electable by: Bass principals

Prerequisites: None

Department: BASS

Hands-on training using current digital equipment and electronic effect devices including reverbs, delays, EQ, compressors, distortion, loopers, and synth-modules. The goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of these effects, including practical skills in order to master their use in actual performance situations.

ILBS-P201

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Steve Bailey

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Required of: None

Electable by: Bass principals

Prerequisites: PIBS-211 or overall ensemble rating 3

Department: BASS

ILBS-P201 is intended to provide intermediate and advanced bass students with the opportunity to closely study the style, technique, and writing of the legendary Jaco Pastorius. The semester will begin with early Jaco recordings, his first solo record, Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, and others. Students will have the opportunity to listen, analyze, and play songs, bass lines, and solos from each phase. The semester will progress with mid and then later recordings, always focusing on the more influential and monumental pieces. Video footage from both YouTube and Jaco's own instructional videos will be included. Students will develop grooves and compositions in Jaco's style.

ILBS-P210

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Steve Bailey

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Required of: None

Electable by: All

Prerequisites: ILBS-P110

Department: BASS

This course is intended to provide further study and advancement for students who have completed ILBS-P110, Electric Bass for Non-Bass Principals. The course will begin with refining and developing technique and sound on the electric bass. Exercises involving arpeggios, scales, intervals, etc. are utilized to further develop fretboard knowledge and awareness. Four-part chords, scales, and modes will be introduced and used in bass line application. In addition, students will also learn basic slapping technique. Each week the bass line to a song will be learned and performed along with the recorded song.

ILBS-P220

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Steve Bailey

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Required of: None

Electable by: Bass principals

Prerequisites: ILBS-111

Department: BASS

The student will study style, interpretation, and creativity, via performance of transcriptions and ‚études from various artists in the metal style. Weekly lessons will consist of harmonic, rhythmic, and technical aspects of metal bass playing. Topics will include playing in odd meters, tapping, finger style, energy level, attitude, picking, slap, alternate tunings, and focus on economy of motion.

ILBS-P260

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Steve Bailey

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Required of: None

Electable by: Bass principals

Prerequisites: Written approval of course chair

Department: BASS

This course explores Gary Willis’ approach to music and creativity in an interactive workshop environment. Students will learn from Willis’ experience in his 30+ year career in music and will have the opportunity to interact with him on a broad range of topics including technique, improvisation, composition, and more. The composer, recording artist, author and instrument designer will share his views on creativity and how it can relate to multiple aspects of a musician’s experience.

ILBS-P264

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Steve Bailey

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Required of: None

Electable by: All bass and percussion principals

Prerequisites:

Department: PERF

This course will use the study of Afro-Cuban music as a departure point into other styles, demonstrating how to apply folkloric elements to jazz, funk, rock, pop, odd-meters, and hybrid rhythms over a common pulse. Numerous styles will be analyzed, studied, and memorized. This course is designed to allow the student to gain a working knowledge of Afro-Cuban music and its application to other styles, and refine groove and articulation.

ILBS-P385

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Steve Bailey

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Required of: None

Electable by: Bass principals

Prerequisites: None

Department: BASS

A bass lab designed to explore, examine, and perform both traditional and contemporary gospel music. This course will introduce the student to various styles of gospel, including hymns, spirituals, praise, and worship. This course will also explore major figures in the genre, such as Abraham Laboriel, Joel Smith, Andrew Gouche, and Fred Hammond, and their inspirations and mentors, including Anthony Jackson, Marcus Miller, John Patitucci, and Jimmy Haslip. Students will study from both historical and musical/technical perspectives, including the relationship between bass and organ, learning quickly by rote, and pertinent harmonic considerations for the various styles within gospel.

ILEN-333

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Ron Savage

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Required of: None

Electable by: All

Prerequisites: MTEC-111

Department: ENS

Students will develop basic skills using the turntable both as a means of live expression and performance and as a production tool. Weekly hands-on exercises will be emphasized. The course traces the historical development of the turntable from its origins in Jamaican music through its importance as a major expression of hip-hop culture, and to the turntable's prominence in contemporary music. Artistic, ethical, and legal issues surrounding the use of the turntable will be examined. For students with little or no prior experience.

ILGT-115

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Larry Baione

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Required of: None

Electable by: All

Prerequisites: None

Department: GUIT

A lab for the non-guitar principal focusing on technique for the development of basic lead, comping, and soloing skills for effective performance. Students are required to provide their own acoustic or electric guitar.

ILGT-211

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Larry Baione

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Required of: None

Electable by: Guitar principals

Prerequisites: None

Department: GUIT

A lab focusing on the development of lead, comping, and soloing skills necessary for effective performance in an ensemble. Aids to skills development include a graphic/electronic repertoire of rhythm tracks that provides effective ensemble environments. Planned outcomes include successful transition into the college ensemble program.

ILGT-213

1 credit(s)

Course Chair: Larry Baione

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Required of: None

Electable by: Guitar principals

Prerequisites: None

Department: GUIT

A course developed to aid guitarists in negotiating odd and compound meters. The student will explore meters based on groupings of 5, 7, 9, and 11 through a graduated series of exercises, ‚études, class demonstration, and participation. Some knowledge of chord voicings and the ability to solo over chord changes is strongly recommended, but not essential.